Research and
Innovation Specialist Advisors Susan Eick and Ewa Thompson will guide us
through the process of writing and submitting a research grant application at
UoP, R&I’s support in this process, and the available resources at the
University. This workshop will be really
useful in helping us to focus on planning for submitting research grant
applications in this academic year. To register for this event please email futurescentre@plymouth.ac.uk

8 November 2017 || 13:00-17:00 || Brexit: Meeting the
Challenge in the South West

ESRC Festival of Social
Science 2017

Dr Andreas Walmsley will be contributing to this
event and discussing the impact of Brexit on the
tourism and hospitality sectors. For more details about this event, and to register your attendance,
please visit
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/esrcfoss081117MH

The
Gender and Enterprise Network (Institute for Small Business and
Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group) co-chaired by Dr Haya Al-Dajani will
host an international webinar during ISBE 2017. This webinar aims to
conquer some of the political borders that separate the international
entrepreneurship community by bringing us together to share and discuss the
potential of entrepreneurship in conquering borders through virtual and
physical presence. RESI will host a
‘webinar party’ at Futures to link in with this webinar.

The workshop aims to create the space and
opportunity for members of Plymouth’s deprived communities, including refugees
and asylum seekers to come together with students and staff from Plymouth
University as well as local business owners, and other members of the general
public, to collectively brainstorm, design and ignite team-led responsible
enterprises that aim to foster community empowerment. For more details about
this event, and to register your attendance, please visit https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/enterprising-together?preview=true

Dr Craig Wight is a Lecturer in Hospitality and Tourism, and Programme
Leader for
the undergraduate Hospitality Management programmes at the University’s School of Tourism and
Hospitality. Wight will discuss an alternative conceptual perspective for
carrying out research into “dark tourism” by presenting a discourse analysis of
Lithuanian occupation-themed museums using Foucault’s concept of ‘discursive
formation’ from ‘Archaeology of Knowledge’. Tourism visits to sites associated
to varying degrees with death and dying have for some time inspired academic
debate and research into what has come to be popularly described as ‘dark
tourism’. It is hoped that his study will motivate others to follow a
discourse-analytical approach to research in order to further understand the
critical role of museums in public culture when it comes to shaping knowledge
about ‘inconvenient’ pasts. To register for this event please email futurescentre@plymouth.ac.uk

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